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Explaining the Industrial Revolution: From Agraria to Industria

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 527-534, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Ernest Gellner suggested that a multi‐factor—indeed, a 15‐factor—model was necessary to explain the Industrial Revolution. Most economic historians prefer a much simpler economistic theory while adding ritual genuflections to the role of ‘culture’ and ‘institutions’.
Michael Mann
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: Exile and Innovation☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 8-25, February 2025.
Abstract The early modern period was an age marked by the forced migration and displacement of social groups and individuals around the world. Huguenots, conversos, Catholics, cavaliers, Jacobites, and French emigrés alike fled or were expelled from their homes and communities.
Annalisa Nicholson, Christophe Gillain
wiley   +1 more source

Religion, Economics and Social Thought

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 1991
This is a wide-ranging and fascinating collection of papers dealing with the impact of religion on what may be called the social economy. It is an ecumenical volume in that it begins with the Catholic Church then considers severaJ forms of Protestantism,
Salim Rashid
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The Decline and Retrieval of Divine Incomprehensibility in Modern Reformed Theology

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 26, Issue 4, Page 386-408, October 2024.
Abstract This article explores the way in which two modern Reformed theologians, Charles Hodge and Herman Bavinck, articulate their theologies of divine incomprehensibility and the knowability of God in radically different ways, against the backdrop of post‐Kantian epistemology.
Jack O'Grady
wiley   +1 more source

Jan Bavinck’s (1826-1909) Reformed Piety: Experiential and Holistic

open access: yesPerichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University
This article introduces the theology of a neglected figure in the Dutch Reformed (Gereformeerde) tradition of the nineteenth century: Jan Bavinck (1826-1909), the father of Herman Bavinck (1854-1921).
Leiva Israel José Guerrero
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KNOWLEDGE, VALUES, AND BELIEFS IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONTEXT SINCE 1948: AN OVERVIEW

open access: yesZygon, 2015
In this contribution, an overview of the distinct ways in which the interplay between knowledge, values, and beliefs took shape in the South African context since 1948 is offered. This is framed against the background of the paleontological significance
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The Significance of Relations between Hungarian and Dutch Reformed Congregations under the Single-Party State – With a Special Emphasis on the Dutch Connections of Dezső Szabó, Pastor in Káloz, in the Focus of the State Security Services

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Theologia Reformata Transylvanica
The study provides a glimpse into the ministry of Dezső Szabó, the Reformed pastor in Káloz (Hungary) in the 1960s, when he rebuilt informal church relations – independent of church leadership – with Dutch congregations.
Szilvia KÖBEL
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Afrikaner nationalism, apartheid, and the conceptualisation of "race" [PDF]

open access: yes, 1991
African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented 23 September, 1991In recent years our historical understanding of Afrikaner nationalism has been transformed.
Dubow, Saul
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Is it not God’s mercy that nourishes and sustains us … forever? Some theological perspectives on entangled sustainabilities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This essay explores the question whether and if so what contribution Christian systematic theology can make to contemporary discourse on sustainability and more specifically ‘entangled sustainabilities’.
Conradie, Ernst
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Reformed theology in modern Europe (nineteenth and twentieth centuries) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The history of nineteenth and twentieth century Europe is one of upheaval. How did modern European Reformed theologians and theologies fare as the social, political, cultural and intellectual ground upon which they stood was shifting?
Eglinton, James
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